Thank you for making the 2nd Australasian Mental Health Outcomes Conference a success!
The 2nd Australasian Mental Health Outcomes Conference was held on 24 – 26 November 2008 at the Crown Promenade Hotel.
We thank you for your contribution to the conference and invite you to visit the website regularly as the presentations will be available for downloading in the coming weeks pending on all of the presenters' approval.
We look forward to seeing all of you at the next conference in 2010 in Auckland, New Zealand.
Tim Coombs
Chair Conference Organising Committee
CONFERENCE INTRODUCTION
The Australasian Mental Health Outcomes Conference has been convened to provide an opportunity to share the results of the introduction of routine outcome measurement within mental health services. The conference provides an opportunity to showcase the work of services in the continued development of outcomes information systems and the use of information collected during routine clinical practice to support quality improvement and service development activities. The inaugural conference highlighted the use of outcome measures to support engagement, assessment, dialogue and care planning activities, the management and planning of mental health services, and quality improvement activities. The 2nd conference will be an opportunity to learn more about the continued development of routine outcome measurement in mental health services and strategies for sustainability into the future. The conference presentations and workshops will be of interest to:
clinicians seeking to utilise outcome measures and mental health information in clinical practice e.g. nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, occupational therapists;
service directors, managers and team leaders with responsibility for using the measures to inform team reviews and make decisions about service provision;
consumers and carers seeking to expand their knowledge of the use of outcome measures to improve mental health care for individuals;
information managers, academics and researchers with an interest in the analysis and reporting of outcomes information; and
policy specialists and all those with responsibility for driving the mental health agenda;
